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Welcome to the devlog thread of mini drift! Mini drift is a work in progress small android game about... Guess what... Yeah! Drifting!
Feedbacks are greatly appreciated!
For the play store link just DM me!
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For now all the UI + the car design is temporary, only things that are definitive are the code and the props design (trees, fences, rocks, mushrooms etc...)
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Here's the level selection menu for now! Any idea of what could be improved?
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I might add night for some levels or a day/night cycle in the infinite mode
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Switched to close fit for better looking shadows hopefully
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Added collectables
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I also did a code cleanup (only for parts which had something to do with the inspector or parts that used GameObject.Find() when I could just have accessed the gameObject from the game manager singleton) and everything looks much better from the inspector
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Made a canvas manager and god that is soooo good
This was not possible before because multiple game objects were getting canvas elements from GameObject.Find() and hiding/showing things on their own, now all these game objects do is call canvas manager's methods
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Made a color picker!
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Even better one
frank crater
Cool looking game
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Cool looking game
Thanks!
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Added a google play game leaderboard
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Working on translations, any idea of another language I should support?
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Added a coin pick up animation
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Added the animation for when you watch an ad too
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Need inspiration for the designs
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New menu
Any idea on what the 5th button could be? rn it's settings, shop, leaderboard, review, nothing
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23 versions in 5 days 😭
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Could anyone help me with chinese/spanish/german translations?
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Made a lot of bug fixes
Removed the "duels" button as I'm not good enough to add multiplayer
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Added google play games cloud save!!!
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Optimised it from 0.77ms per average frame to 0.17ms
Not "average per frame" but "per average frame", by this I mean frames where expensive scripts/methods like road generation don't execute
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Started working on shop UI, any idea to improve it?
rich tartan
the white background for the UI feels out of place, maybe a light gray colored UI would look more consistent because the rest of the UI is light gray/ dark gray
also the red, blue, and yellow colors in the main menu are not used except in the main menu, maybe try to subtly add the colors in other parts of the game, but not too much
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also the red, blue, and yellow colors in the main menu are not used except in th...
I didn't saw that, it would have saved me a lot of time! I spent the last 4 hours thinking about it
And I came up with same conclusion
Thanks a lot for your help tho!
rich tartan
no problem
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Now I still need to make the setting menu looks a bit better and same for the color palette in the shop
If someone have an idea I'll take it
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I'll start working on this again during the holidays
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Hey guys, just wanna say the game is ready to be released! Once Google accepts it, I'll need 20 testers who download the app and keep it for 14 days. The thing is I don't know 20 people so if you're interested in being a tester, I'll just need your email used in your play store account (send in dm ofc) so I can add you as part of the beta program
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can i try?
Yeah sure
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https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/madudevs-apps-testers
Just join this google group (using the same google account you use for the play store)
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maDU59.MiniDrift
And then download it here
I could release it rn but I'm really sick, I'll do it next week
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Added pooling for the props for increased performances when generating road segments
Should reduce lag spikes hopefully
Game's gonna be released as soon as I'm not sick anymore
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FULL RELEASE
Mini Drift has been validated by Google and is now available pubicly on the play store for everyone to try!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maDU59.MiniDrift
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7 reviews and still no rating displayed on the play store 😭 Might not be enough
solar fern
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Got a rating displayed on the play store for french phones users
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Worked on translations (in game and play store page), added some text on some menus to make them easier to understand and probably gonna add a tutorial if I have the time to
New update tomorrow if I have the time to add a tutorial
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__**FULL RELEASE**__
Mini Drift has been validated by Google and is now availab...
Tried it out and for some reason is the game default german for me.
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Tried it out and for some reason is the game default german for me.
That can be changed in the settings
But yeah that's weird lol
I'll take a look into that, thanks for telling me
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Added 4 new cars!
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Also redesigned the shop, improved performances (reduced by half the number of raycasts per frame, cached a lot of things and added culling to some animations), removed useless things for a smaller app size and improved visual effects (drift smoke, car lights "glow" effect)
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Not really 😅
